Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Yeruchem Levovitz, aka The Mashgiach

To overcome your negative habits, view each day as if it is the first day of your life. Have a fresh view of things each and every day.

Character | Day | Life | Life |

James Russell Lowell

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Character | Day | World |

Israel Salanter Lipkin

"Know thyself" means: devote time each day to studying yourself... ferreting out your weakness, working at self-improvement, purifying your immortal soul.

Character | Day | Improvement | Know thyself | Means | Self | Self-improvement | Soul | Time | Weakness |

Avigdor Miller

If a person learns to be grateful to the Creator because he is allowed to awake in the morning, then every day is begun with a feeling of gratitude for an additional day of life.

Character | Day | Gratitude | Life | Life |

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Time presupposes a view of time. It is, therefore, not like a river, not a flowing substance. The fact that the metaphor based on this comparison has persisted from the time of Heraclitus to our own day is explained by our surreptitiously putting into the river a witness of its course.

Character | Day | Time | Wisdom | Witness |

John Homer Miller

In a life well lived, each succeeding day becomes better than the last. Each day, each year, each experience does not stand alone; it cannot be separated from what has happened before or what may happen after. Yesterday determines today, and today helps determine tomorrow.

Better | Character | Day | Experience | Life | Life | Tomorrow |

Posidonius, aka Posidonius of Rhodes or Posidonius of Apameia (meaning "of Poseidon") NULL

A single day in the life of a learned man is worth more than the lifetime of a fool.

Character | Day | Life | Life | Man | Worth |

Pliny the Younger, full name Casus Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo NULL

The highest of characters, in my estimation, is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of some himself; and at the same time as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Character | Day | Estimation | Fault | Mankind | Pardon | Time | Fault | Guilty |

Sinéad O’Connor, fully Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor

The purpose of life is to find the truth and make it come into everything you do, from one end of the day to the other.

Character | Day | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Truth |

Tatjana Patitz

I believe that being true to the self is the most important thing in life - to have a free heart, a pure soul and a pure mind. We all live, or should live, for the fulfillment of the self. We are all mirror images of each other; whatever we feel in ourselves we feel in others. I believe that we create our own lives... Intuition should play the main role in everything we do. Through the creative source of the mind and the unlimited power of the spirit all our deepest wishes come true. For me the meaning is that we are all one, and the only true reality is the spirit. Believing in the power of spirit is simply to have a passion for life, to learn, to grow, to evolve and most of all to love, and live each day and each moment of the day to the fullest.

Character | Day | Fulfillment | Heart | Important | Intuition | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Mind | Passion | Play | Power | Reality | Self | Soul | Spirit | Wishes |

William Lyon Phelps

One of the chief reasons for success in life is the ability to maintain a daily interest in one's work, to have a chronic enthusiasm, to regard each day as important.

Ability | Character | Day | Enthusiasm | Important | Life | Life | Regard | Success | Work |

Publius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Character | Day |

Publius Syrus

You can never tell what to wish for or what to avoid: so each day mocks you.

Character | Day |

John Charles Salak

Let us think only of spending the present day well. then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Character | Day | Present | Tomorrow | Will | Think |

Kenneth Ring

The meaning of life has something to do with realizing that our essence is perfect love, then going on to live our lives upon that truth, experiencing each day as a miracle and every act as sacred.

Character | Day | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Sacred | Truth |

Leland Stanford, fully Amasa Leland Stanford

Count the day lost, whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done.

Action | Character | Day |